Chapter 166: Meet your father-in-law
Early the next morning, Hougist drove his new car to McCulran International Airport with Qiu Jingli, and waited respectfully for the arrival of his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
At the end of August, it has gradually entered the off-season of tourism, and most of the locals at the airport are returning from tourism, and Hougist still has training this afternoon, so he went out wearing UNLV training short sleeves, so many people recognized Hoggist, and they came around to ask for autographs and group photos. After dealing with the waves of enthusiastic fans with a professional smile on his face, a chill hit his heart, and he suddenly felt the hostile look behind him.
Looking back, Qiu Jingli's parents didn't know when they had stood by her side, Qiu Jingli and her mother were simply carved out of a mold, and when they saw Qiu Luoshui Haogist, they could know that Qiu Jingli looked like after the age of fifty, still beautiful and incomprehensible, and a little more intellectually beautiful.
Although Qiu Jingli's father, Mr. Zhang Weiping, is less than 6 feet tall, not only does he not have a beer belly, but his casual shirt can't hide his good figure, and it seems that he usually goes to the gym. It's just that although Mr. Zhang's face is gentle and amiable, his eyes are full of murderous aura when he stares at Hogist!
Hogist thought to himself that what Li'er said was right, my uncle looked at me like an enemy, and I really had to be cautious about what I said and did later! But I can't show that I'm too afraid of him, I guess the more I'm afraid of him, the more difficult it will be for me! I have to be polite, not humble or arrogant, so that he is blameless.
Haojist secretly made up his mind and stepped forward, Qiu Jingli introduced: "Helian, this is my father and mother. β
Haojist first bowed respectfully to Qiu Jingli's parents, straightened up with a smile on his face, and stretched out his hand to Qiu Luoshui first.
Because Qiu Jingli had always told Haojist that her father had been opposing them being together, and her mother not only had some objections but also faintly supportive, so Haojister was afraid that it would be very embarrassing to greet Mr. Zhang first and not get a response, so he stretched out his hand to Qiu Luoshui to make a good start.
Sure enough, Qiu Luoshui also stretched out his hand, and Haojist bowed down to hold his hands, and said: "Hello aunt, in Xia Helianwu, the grass word is Zhengyang, I have heard your name for a long time, and it is really a blessing to see you today!" β
"I didn't expect you to have a table word, it seems that Ling Zun is also a person with family roots! The sun is noon, like the middle of the day, it seems that Ling Zun has high expectations for you! Qiu Luoshui smiled and looked at Haugist, and said meaningfully.
"Uh...... Aunt praised it falsely! Hoggist said modestly.
Qiu Jingli interjected on the side: "You still have words, it feels so retro and cultured, you haven't told me before!" β
"You haven't asked?" Hoggist hung Qiu Jingli's nose for a moment, and then attached it and whispered: "I haven't used this word since I was a child, and I almost forgot it!" β
Qiu Luoshui also turned his head and asked Qiu Jingli, "Good daughter, did you give that stone to Uncle Helenda?" β
At the mention of stones, Hogist and Qiu Jingli glanced at each other, their faces full of embarrassment.
Qiu Luoshui refers to the Helan stone pendant that Qiu Jingli brought to Haojist's father. That day, Qiu Jingli gave the pendant to Haojist, and Haojist had a car accident on the way home, and when Qiu Jingli arrived at the hospital, Haojist was already doing surgery, after the operation was successful, Qiu Jingli was concerned about chaos, and Haojist was anesthetic sequelae, and both of them forgot the existence of the stone. By the time the two of them remembered that there was such a thing as a stone, they had nowhere to find it. Haorgistto went to the evidence rooms of the LVPD and the Vegas FBI, and also consulted the case files at the time, but there was no relevant record at all; He rummaged through every inch of the accident site and found it too; He even searched for a needle in a haystack through all the thrift stores and antique stores in Vegas, and the results were equally disappointing. After that, every week or two they would go to the antique market, but they never heard from them.
Now Qiu Luoshui asked about this stone, and the two didn't know how to answer for a while. At this time, Qiu Jingli's father came out to "break the siege", Zhang Weiping snorted coldly with a dark face, "Hmph! Some people go out so high-profile! I can't tell the whole world that he is a star, and he is attracting bees and butterflies wherever he goes. β
Horgist didn't mind Mr. Zhang Weiping's cynicism, but turned around and stretched out his hand to him with a smile on his face, Zhang Weiping didn't mean to stretch out his hand at all, but Horgist grabbed Zhang Weiping's right hand, shook it enthusiastically for a long time, and asked with concern: "Hello uncle, uncle, I see that your face and mood are not very good, did you not sleep well on the plane?" My father booked a room for my uncle and aunt in the hotel, and I took you two to rest first, poured the jet lag, and prepared a little wine in the cold house in the evening to catch the wind and wash the dust for my uncle and aunt. β
"Alright! I'm really sleepy," Zhang Weiping didn't want to give Haogist any good looks, but when he heard Haojist say that he had booked a hotel, he wanted to give him a dismissal, so he pretended to be kind and said: "I don't have any requirements for the grade of the hotel, but your aunt sleeps outside all the year round, her body is relatively weak, and she needs a better rest environment, so let's find a hotel by ourselves, right?" β
Zhang Weiping's implication is that the hotel is not of enough grade, so don't go. This is obviously disgusted with the poverty of Haojist's family, Zhang Weiping is not a person who dislikes the poor and loves the rich, he just needs to find some ways to embarrass Haojister to make himself feel more comfortable, after all, the cabbage that he has carefully cared for for many years has been arched by pigs like this, and anger is also human nature.
Hougist didn't mind Zhang Weiping's attitude, at this moment his arrogance would only turn into a slap in the face.
"Uncle, don't worry! We first went to the hotel to see the environment, and then we changed it for you if we were not satisfied. Let's stop standing and talking, let's get in the car first! Otherwise, my fans will be around again in a while! Haugist reached out and made a gesture of please.
Haojist and Qiu Jingli took Zhang Weiping and his wife to the parking lot, and when they passed by a Malibu, Mr. Zhang Weiping naturally stopped, intending to go over and pull the car door.
Hougist stood aside with a smile and watched, without saying a word, Qiu Jingli knew that Hoggist wanted to deliberately see his father's jokes, so he gave him a blank look, and shouted at Zhang Weiping: "Dad! What are you doing? β
"Get in the car! Aren't you driving this car? Chevrolet Malibu, the photos you posted before are all about this car! Zhang Weiping said.
"Helian came in his car today, we didn't drive the Malibu." Qiu Jingli said.
"Yes, that second-hand Malibu is too low-grade, of course you have to change the car to pick up such an important customer!" Hogist added on the sidelines.
Zhang Weiping withdrew his hand in embarrassment, but thought in his heart: What kind of good car can this poor boy afford to drive at home? Could it be a Mercedes-Benz BMW that I don't know how many hands I bought in the second-hand car market?
Everyone walked a few more parking spaces, Hogist stopped in front of his G500, and Zhang Weiping didn't notice that he was still walking forward. Qiu Jingli glared at Haojist again, and Haojist smiled and shouted, "Uncle, don't go any further, it's already here." β
Zhang Weiping looked back and saw that Haojist had already opened the rear door to help Qiuluo get on the car, and was taken aback, saying that luxury cars in the United States are so cheap? A poor family like Helian Wu who lives in a slum actually drives a Mercedes-Benz G500? You have to hesitate to buy this car yourself, even if you remove import tariffs and the like, it will cost more than 100,000 dollars in the United States! I don't know if their family's total income in a year is so much, not counting expenses, how long do you have to save money to afford it? It's really a swollen face and a fat man.
However, Zhang Weiping thought about it and was relieved, this car may also have been temporarily rented for the past few days to receive our visit, right? That's going to cost a lot of money! Although I don't like him, but I can't let their family spend so much money in vain, get in the car and ask him how much the car is rented a day, and give Li'er a sum of money when she leaves, so that she can compensate their family.
Everyone got into the car, Hoggist started the car and galloped towards the hotel, and Mr. Zhang Weiping on the co-pilot said in a chatty tone: "This car is really not bad!" Enough! β
"That's it! This car is a 5.5-liter V8 engine, 388 maximum horsepower, 285 kilowatts of maximum power, 530 Nm of maximum torque, 7-speed manual automatic transmission, not to mention more enjoyable to drive! Hoggist said rather proudly.
Qiu Jingli sat in the back row and laughed: "You seem to be very disgusted when Uncle Helian handed over the car to you yesterday!" Why did you sell it today? β
Zhang Weiping listened to his daughter's words, Helianda only gave the car to Helianwu yesterday, it must have been rented! So he smiled and asked, "Listening to your introduction, this car is really good, the rent for a day is not cheap!" β
"Rent? This car is not rented! This is my father's gift to me! Hougist kept smiling the whole time, convinced that the more calm he became, the more embarrassing he became.
"Dad, you're really! What a faux pas! Qiu Jingli also complained in the back row.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm abrupt!" Zhang Weiping apologized again and again, and his face was a little unbearable, thinking that this Helianda is really enough to make a lot of money, how much money can he earn a year? is willing to spend so much money to buy a luxury car for his son to support the faΓ§ade, and I don't know if they can afford it! But he bought such a high-end car for his children, and my daughter still drives Malibu is really a little unreasonable, and people who don't know think it's my baby girl who climbed their house!
Thinking of this, Zhang Weiping changed the topic and said: "The car here is much cheaper than in China, girl!" This time you can be Robert. Professor Langdon's student, no matter what the reason is, it's a great joy, your Malibu was originally second-hand, and it has been driven for four years, and now it's time to change, Dad gave you a good car, just open your mouth if you want anything! β
"Look at this." Qiu Jingli took out her mobile phone, opened the gallery, and showed the photos of the new car taken yesterday to her father.
Zhang Weiping took the phone and looked at it carefully, "This sports car is quite beautiful, look at the car logo is BMW's, I really haven't seen this one in China, what kind of model is this?" β
Haojist opened his mouth before Qiu Jingli and said, "Uncle is usually busy with business matters, so he doesn't often watch movies, right?" This is the movie "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" released in 2012, a high-end sports car in the domestic translation of "Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol", which has just been mass-produced this year, and is a plug-in hybrid model, which is extremely cool! β
"OMG! I said girl! Daddy thinks you're a quiet girl! I didn't expect you to love this wild speed and furious! How much does this car cost? Zhang Weiping asked casually.
"This car has just been mass-produced this year, the production capacity is insufficient, and it will take a long time to order the car, and it is impossible to have more than 200,000 dollars for the current car." Haugist continued to reply.
Zhang Weiping almost didn't bite off his tongue when he heard the price, 200,000 dollars! If this is placed in the country, it must not be 2 million upwards! The 2012 Mercedes-Benz S600L Grand Edition that I changed at the beginning of the year was only in the early 2 million because of the replacement promotion, and it was only a little over 2 million yuan. It's really pampered since she was a child, why did she develop such a luxurious style of life now? I'm afraid this car can only be afforded by waiting for this stinky boy in the driver's seat to become an NBA star!
But I have already said a lot, and if I regret it on the spot now, it will really be completely disgraced! Zhang Weiping couldn't wait to give himself a big mouth, but even if he hid and smashed his face, now in front of everyone, he can only agree to save face first.
Zhang Weiping was in the midst of a fierce battle between heaven and man in his mind, and at this time, Qiu Jingli finally grabbed the front of Haojist to speak, after all, the co-pilot was sitting in his own father, so he couldn't always get off the stage, right?
"Dad, I'm showing you my new car!" Qiu Jingli explained.
"What? Where did you get that much money? Zhang Weiping couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard that Qiu Jingli had already bought this car.
"How can I have so much money to buy this car, it was given to me by Uncle Helian!" Qiu Jingli told the truth.
"What?" This time, Zhang Weiping was even more surprised, and directly shouted in a lost voice, "Helianda gave it to you!" And where did he get all this money? β
"Of course my dad earned it!" Hougist answered from the side, with a hint of displeasure in his tone.
Zhang Weiping realized that he was a little unscrupulous just now, and hurriedly defended: "I'm sorry, I mean girl, as the so-called merit is not rewarded, how can you accept such a valuable gift from others?" β
"Our family is not divided into each other, and besides, I have also made great contributions! I deserve this car! Qiu Jingli said proudly.
"You kid is so rude! How can you casually claim to be a family with someone else's family! Zhang Weiping reprimanded his daughter, but he understood it in his heart, as the saying goes, girls are extroverted, women are not stayed, and the ancients are honest and do not deceive me! It seems that this daughter has firmly become a part of someone else's family! No matter how much I oppose it, I'm afraid it will be in vain!